Friday, November 21, 2008

Well it finally happened...I made my first wikipedia entry (actually, just a small addition) to the Health 2.0 entry. I decided to add the great definition by my friend and colleague Dr. Ian Furst to the webpage:

Health 2.0 is participatory healthcare characterized by the ability to rapidly share, classify and summarize individual health information with the goals of improving health care systems, experiences and outcomes via integration of patients and stakeholders.

I have to say, adding content to wikipedia is really not that hard. I've been toying around the idea of creating a dental wiki to formalize and organize a lot of the dental tidbits and facts of the blog. we'll see if it comes to fruition.

Friday, November 07, 2008

Love this article on universal dental care (which I support) in the University of Toronto Magazine. The link is below to the online summary. Here's the teaser snippet:

Canada's Universal Healthcare System stops, for a series of complicated and unpalatable reasons,at the gum line – a boundary not recognized by the human body. According to Jim Leake, a U of T professor emeritus of community dentistry, this artificial dividing line leaves tens of thousands of Canadians – especially low-income families, First Nations people and children – without adequate dental care.Read the rest of the article here:Gum Control :http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/08autumn/leadingedge.asp#gum

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Most mandibular first premolars (two teeth in front of your lower molars) have a single root and a single (nerve) canal, 24% have greater than 2 canals. Typically, people from the African-American, Turkish and Chinese populations have an increased incidence of multiple canals.